'Am I being unreasonable to vaccinate my kids against my ex's wishes?' - A corpus linguistic exploration of conflict in vaccination discussions on Mumsnet Talk's AIBU forum
'Am I being unreasonable to vaccinate my kids against my ex's wishes?' - A corpus linguistic exploration of conflict in vaccination discussions on Mumsnet Talk's AIBU forum
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10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100624
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2022-06-29
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Semino, Elena
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Coltman-Patel, Tara;Dance, William;Semino, Elena
在线育儿论坛是有关儿童疫苗接种的流行信息来源，但疫苗接种讨论，特别是在线讨论，往往两极分化和两极分化（Jenkins & Moreno 2020）。这可能对最终的疫苗接种决策具有非常真实的影响（Al-Hasan et al.，2021年）。在英国访问量最大的育儿论坛之一是Mumsnet Talk，由育儿网站Mumsnet主办，该网站以直言不讳和好斗而闻名。据说这特别适用于其最受欢迎的谈话主题，我是不合理的吗？在本文中，我们将联合收割机基于语料库的方法与定性话语分析相结合，对2000年Mumsnet成立至2021年5月期间AIBU上895个主题中超过600万字的疫苗接种相关讨论进行了研究。我们提供的证据表明，与不在AIBU上的类似线程相比，这些线程中存在更多与对抗相关的语言，放大九个可以用作侮辱的关键字（例如“白痴”和“婊子”）。这些关键词的使用揭示了多种类型的冲突，包括具有相反和相似疫苗立场的人之间的冲突。虽然有些侮辱是针对论坛内的对方，但大多数是针对外部第三方的，通常是AIBU帖子原始帖子中详细描述的离线冲突的核心主角。我们表明，虽然这些侮辱执行不礼貌对外部第三方可能永久冲突，在论坛上的任何张贴之前，他们同时有一个支持和社区内的线程增强功能。我们反思了我们的研究结果的影响，作为一个参考点和互动的父母面临疫苗接种相关的问题和决定的AIBU的作用。
Online parenting forums are popular sources of information about childhood vaccinations, but vaccination discussions, especially online, are often polarised and polarising (Jenkins & Moreno 2020). This can have very real implications for ultimate vaccination decisions (Al-Hasan et al., 2021). Among the most visited parenting forums in the UK is Mumsnet Talk, hosted on the parenting website Mumsnet, which has a reputation for being straight-talking and combative. This supposedly applies particularly to its most popular Talk Topic, Am I being unreasonable?' (AIBU), which also includes numerous threads related to vaccinations.In this paper we combine corpus-based methods with qualitative discourse analysis to examine over 6-million words of vaccination-related discussions on 895 threads on AIBU from the inception of Mumsnet in 2000 to May 2021. We provide evidence of a greater presence of confrontation-related language in these threads when compared with similar threads not on AIBU, zooming in on nine keywords that can be used as insults (e.g. 'idiot' and `bitch'). The use of these keywords reveals the multiple types of conflict at play, including between people with opposing and similar vaccine stances. While some insults are directed at each other within the forum, the majority are directed at external third parties, often the protagonists at the heart of offline conflicts detailed in the original post of an AIBU thread. We show that, although these insults perform impoliteness towards external third parties potentially perpetuating conflict that predates any posting on the forum, they simultaneously have a supportive and community enhancing function within the threads. We reflect on the implications of our findings for the role of AIBU as a point of reference and site of interaction for parents facing vaccination-related issues and decisions.